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    Sharpie to lable microfibers?

    Just curious, would a sharpie perminant marker damage microfiber towells? I ask because I like to have one or two MF towells for drying most of the car, another one for picking up smaller amounts of water, another for windows, another for the dashboard and interior stuff, another for wiping...
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    mobile detailers: How to deal with the sun?

    I was in bed, falling asleep, thinking about the mobile detailing "business" me and my friend are trying to start, when I thought of something....how do you do mobile detailing without having the sun out and shining on the car? I know that washing, waxing (or applying any sort of polish or wax...
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    How do you like our flyer? Any suggestions?

    Well, we got this together...how does it look? Any suggestions?
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    Me and one of my friends are gonna give it a shot...

    Well, we both need $, so we're gonna give it a shot. Not gonna do anything CRAZY, just around the neighborhood and stuff, but we'd like some guidance on where to start... We're thinking for 45 bucks or so per car (Trucks, vans, SUV's extra): *Wash *Bug/Tar removal *Clay bar *Paint cleaner...
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    fake "chrome" on plastic / unpainted plastic body parts

    How do you go about cleaning front grills for example that arent metal but plastic, but have like that 'chrome' paint on them? Both my 97 Cadillac Catera and my dads G35 have this, and its hard to know what to do with it..... Also, on the G35 the lower area below the doors is like unpainted...
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    Vibration.....

    Does anyone else have this problem when using a random orbital buffer? The thing vibrates so much that it hurts after a few minutes of using it! any tricks to beating this?
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    G35X nice and clean :-D

    Detailed the outside of the G35X today for my dad.....interior and engine comes tomorrow Started off with Meguiars Deep Crystal carwash, followed by bug and tar remover where needed, my dad had bought a bottle of Turtle Wax liquid wax stuff, so i gave that a try with my new 6 inch random...
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    600 grit sandpaper *EEK!* and some q's about applying cleaner/polish (what pad?)

    Hey, an inexperienced newbie (me, last year) thought he was gonna do a good job at applying touch up paint to what is now his car. on the hood... There was a raised area of extra paint where there was a little chip, and there was some really fine grit wet/dry sand paper (so i thought) in the...
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    No local stores have Meguiars Quik Clay!

    Autozone, Wal mart, Target, Advance Auto Parts.....none of them carry Meguiars Quik Clay! In fact, out of all of those stores, the only one that actually carys clay is Advance Auto Parts, and they want like 17 bucks for the Mothers Clay.... I dont want to order online (its just a hassal cause i...
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    My grandma........

    Hopefully this is the right forum for this..... Anyway, my grandma (she's in her early 90's) lives with us, and is quite capable of walking around by herself, inside and outside of the house......but i saw her do something the other day that sorta scared me, because I sure dont want anything...
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    Thinking about getting a lift.....

    only problem is, the garage we're building cant be too tall....I think my parents decided to go with like an 8 or 9 inch celing for the garage....The reason it cant be too tall is because we're putting a gameroom above the garage, and dont want to have a tower in the back of our house. Know what...
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    ryobi

    Hey, theres gonna be one of those big tool sales around here next weekend.....in the little flyer, they have Ryobi 10" orbital waxer/polishers for 30 bucks....Since I'm not going to be doing any professional detailing, just want to keep my car and my parents cars looking good, and I dont have...
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    Meguiars Scratch-X

    How should I apply this? What should I do before and after? Is it a good product? Thanks
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    Guess an introduction would be nice...

    Hello! My name is Chris, i'm 16 years old and live in Massachusetts (Near Lowell) My car is a dark green 1997 Cadillac Catera, used to be my dads but now he's got a G35X (Yeah, its fast...lol) I just recently (within the last few months) got interested in detailing, but have loved cleaning my...
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    question about electric buffer

    What are the big differences between the Porta-Cable buffer and some of the 'el cheapo' ones like at Wal Mart? is it worth the 100+ dollar difference in price?
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    Massachusetts detailers...

    Hey, i'm 16 years old and have just really gotten into detailing...i'm located right near Lowell Massachusetts and have been looking for a job or something to get me out of the house (Yeah, i dont do any sports or anything really...LOL cars cars cars), and so far have been out of luck. I've...
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